I was at the used book store recently and saw a number of his books in the sci-fi section. They had a lot of Battlefield Earth copies which I saw at the dollar theater when I was in the Air Force and felt a dollar was too much, but to be fair a book shouldn’t be judged on it’s adaptation (Wheel of Time for instance). It’s just that with his books I can’t get past the whole Scientology things.
Just out of pure curiosity I do want to read Dianetics one day because that commercial was on a lot when I was a little kid. I want to see what all the fuss was about.
Dianetics is impossible to read. I’ve tried multiple times. It redefines normal terms into the scientology versions of those terms and it’s obvious it’s intended to confuse the reader’s mind into buying in.
It’s worth trying to read just so you can see how he was so successful.